Word: lincolnisms
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...rest of the year, the course lies mainly dormant, except when giant gray kangaroos come to graze, or roadhouse workers Craig Cooke and Kris Hutchison come for R and R. (New Zealander Hutchison, 23, prefers the nearby mini-golf course-"It's cool.") For Port Lincoln-born Cooke, 34, it's sometimes necessary to get away from the relative rat race of the Nullarbor. "A lot happens out of Eucla," he insists. "We've had suicides, cyclists go under trucks, cars flip over-you name it." But they've yet to see a hole...
...Americans for Common Cents, the pro-penny lobbying group funded by the zinc industry and penny distributors, isn't too concerned. In fact, it has pushed through some serious pro-penny legislation. In 2009, the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the U.S. Mint will issue pennies with four different backs, all chock-full of zinc...
...know if they are right. What I do know is that Presidents in wartime assert that their constitutional responsibility for national security trumps any issue of civil liberties. Often that has meant trampling on them. From John Adams' Sedition Act to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Woodrow Wilson's draconian Espionage Act to F.D.R.'s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, Presidents have constitutionally overreached. Last week's Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case suggested that Bush had too--although his actions hardly compare with the examples above...
Presidents come and go, but monuments are always with us. There's a reason Theodore Roosevelt is the only 20th century President whose face is carved into Mount Rushmore, the only one who could hold his own with Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson. Roosevelt not only remade America, but he also charmed the pants off everybody while he did it. And just short of a century after he left the White House, in 1909, the collective memory of his strength and intellect and charisma still lingers. How many times over the years since have Americans settled their affections on some thoughtful...
...rough-and-tumble of the political arena didn't bother him. "If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career," Roosevelt said, "it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies." T.R. had both. So did F.D.R. So did Lincoln. So did Reagan. So do all consequential leaders...